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Topic: Does photosynthesis increase mass? (Read 3156 times)

Bridget Burgess

I am not a scientistis' bootlace, but I would like to ask a question that I have wondered about for years.

Plants turn photons and basic elements into food; firstly for their own growth and then they either die and decay or become somethings food.

Is this prcoess slowly enlarging the earth? I faintly remember from my science days at school energy = matter and if plants synthize light with matter into growth then it may increase the size of the original matter?

I am not a scientistis' bootlace, but I would like to ask a question that I have wondered about for years.

Plants turn photons and basic elements into food; firstly for their own growth and then they either die and decay or become somethings food.

Is this prcoess slowly enlarging the earth? I faintly remember from my science days at school energy = matter and if plants synthize light with matter into growth then it may increase the size of the original matter?

Maybe a dumb question?

Regards

Bridget Burgess

What do you think?

Do you mean is the earth getting bigger because the sun gives it light? Kinda implies the idea that the earth is a giant plant.

I did see recently a guy who believed in consistent expansion, that everything was always increasing in size, relative to everything else, so you don't notice.

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